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World Special
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 7:00pm

In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, tradition and sport unite two boys cross country teams on the Navajo and Hopi reservations as they battle to be state champs.  To succeed they must conquer both the rigors of training and the personal obstacles they face. 

World Special
Wed, 07/18/2012 - 2:00pm

Margaret Mitchell was no ordinary writer. The one book she published in her lifetime - Gone With the Wind - sold millions of copies during the Great Depression in America and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, 75 years ago.

World Special
Tue, 07/17/2012 - 2:00pm

In The Footsteps Of Marco Polo captures the remarkable, two-year, 25,000-mile attempt to retrace Marco Polo's legendary trek from Venice, Italy to China. 

World Special
Mon, 07/16/2012 - 3:00pm

Take a nostalgic look back at the 26-year history of America's first "in-the-round" summer stock theater — the Orleans Arena Theatre on Massachusetts' Cape Cod. 

World Special
Sun, 07/15/2012 - 7:00pm

Boxing is show business with blood — a tough sport known for finding its top competitors in the poorest neighborhoods. Bukom, a tiny district in Ghana’s capital city of Accra, is one such locale. 

World Special
Fri, 07/13/2012 - 2:00pm

Millions of people in the world, mostly children, die each year from treatable and preventable diseases. That is beginning to change as economic growth lifts hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty and the circumstances known to perpetuate disease

World Special
Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:00am

Uniquely human abilities - thinking in symbols; recombine those symbols into infinite meanings; invent a technology to disseminate the message; ponder the past; speculate about the future; imagine the unknown; build cities; compose music - constitute the "humanspark." 

World Special
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 11:00am

Featuring unexpected turns and transcendent performances this show goes behind the ropes and beyond the green rooms to view rock ’n’ roll through the eyes of prolific photographer Robert M. Knight. 

World Special
Tue, 07/10/2012 - 6:00pm

The New Recruits takes an unflinching look at social enterprise, a movement touted as the new alternative to charity–its ideals, practitioners, and realities. The result is a hilarious, evocative, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride along a road paved with good intentions.

World Special
Sun, 07/08/2012 - 5:00pm

The 635-mile Newport-Bermuda Ocean Sailing Race has proven so glamorous, challenging and subsequently addictive that, despite its many trials, thousands of sailors return to participate year after year. 

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